Quotes of: Human-progress Keyword

Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me... was by dying.

Mi Vida

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.

Neanderthal Seeks Human

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

No Longer Human

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

Neanderthal Seeks Human

I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.

No Longer Human

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

The New Hunger

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

The Nelson Touch

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

Novalis: Philosophical Writings

One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.

The Last Dragon

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

Lud-in-the-Mist

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

Life Is Worth Living

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

Limitations

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark... To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.

Les Misérables

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Les Misérables

The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.

Lord of Misrule

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

L'Argent

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

Lorenzaccio